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Fear stalks Tripoli as 1,000 feared dead in Libya crackdown
Thousands of Libyans celebrated the liberation of the eastern city of Benghazi from the rule of Moammar Gadhafi, who was reported to have sent a plane to bomb them on Wednesday as he clung to power.
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Report: Berlusconi girl describes 'bunga bunga' parties
Dozens of naked women surround the Italian prime minister vying with each other to arouse him — Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties as reportedly described to prosecutors by a key participant.
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Bunga bunga party? No, just girls in Santa outfits for Silvio Berlusconi
Most media coverage of parties allegedly hosted by Silvio Berlusconi has featured semi-naked girls and the words "bunga bunga".
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A defiant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday he was not worried about an order to stand trial for paying for sex with an underage girl and abuse of power, and vowed to see out his term until 2013. In his first public comment since a judge ordered him to stand trial on April 6 over the case, Berlusconi told reporters: "For love of country I won't talk about it. Suffice it to say that I am not worried in the least."
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Berlusconi ordered to face trial
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's regime, dubbed a "tartocracy" due to the playboy billionaire's inclusion of ex-showgirls in his cabinet, is facing its greatest challenge yet after a judge sent him to trial Tuesday on sex and abuse of power charges.
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Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi to face trial over prostitution scandal
An Italian judge ordered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with an underage girl and abuse of office, according to a statement from the judge's office.
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Disgusted by sex scandal, Italian women plan mass protest
Enraged by the degrading images of the female sex emerging from the 'Rubygate scandal' surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italian women plan protests on Sunday to "defend their dignity."
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Bunga bunga parties nearly over for Berlusconi
Imagine: Over the past 17 years, since you formed and became leader of your country's main political party, you have had 27 serious criminal charges brought against you. Despite your genius for denying everything and changing the law retroactively to save your skin, some of those charges are still pending and carry big prison sentences.
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Mubarak, Berlusconi and the King of Thailand: The 10 richest world leaders
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned power as Egypt's president today, and leaves with a reported fortune of anytwhere between $40-70 billion. Here are some other world leaders who have a healthy nest egg socked away for their retirement
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Italian prosecutors seek sex trial for PM Berlusconi
Italian prosecutors filed a request on Wednesday to bring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to trial immediately on charges of paying for sex with an underaged girl and improperly pressuring police to release her from custody.
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Evidence piles up against Berlusconi
Prosecutors are to hand "0 pages of documents to judges today as they request Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi be sent to trial on allegations of abuse of office and paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
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Rumours of PM in nude pictures spur legal row
Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi have filed objections over investigations that have allegedly found photos of him naked in the company of young show-girls at "bunga bunga" parties at his mansion. The existence of the images has prompted a bidding war between magazines and photo agencies, with a starting price of $1.4 million. The premier's legal team said the pictures, if they even exist, "would be fakes, manipulated pictures, photo montages." They have nonetheless filed complaints with authorities as a precaution against publication.
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Protesters call for Berlusconi’s resignation outside PM's villa
Hundreds of demonstrators chanted for Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign Sunday outside his villa near Milan, in the latest protest against the scandal-plagued prime minister, local media reported.
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Berlusconi suffers political setback with sex inquiry looming
Silvio Berlusconi suffered a new setback on Thursday after failing to win backing for a key reform demanded by his powerful coalition ally.
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Italy- language tests now a must for would-be citizens
FLORENCE, Italy, Feb 2, 2011 - Mario slips into his seat in the Florence schoolroom just as the exam begins: five years after arriving in Italy from Honduras he may finally be able to clinch that longed-for permit to stay, thanks to the country's new language tests.
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PM's party expels woman for criticism
The only woman in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party who dared to speak out against his relationship with young women said on Tuesday she was being expelled from the movement. While party heavyweights have rushed to defend Berlusconi, mired in a prostitution scandal, Sara Giudice, a 25-year-old city councillor in Milan, criticized his taste for starlets and said he should stop giving them jobs in politics. She launched a petition demanding the resignation of Lombardy regional councillor Nicole Minetti, a former TV showgirl and Berlusconi's ex-dental hygienist who, prosecutors allege, procured young women for sex parties at his homes.
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Italy will celebrate its 150th anniversary of nationhood as the sick man of Europe
It is a painful reality that as Italy prepares to celebrate on March 17 the 150th anniversary of its modern nationhood, after one of the greatest and longest wars of liberation and nation-building in the 19th century, it has become the sick man of Europe.
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Second under-age girl at Italian PM Berlusconi's parties: Report
A second under-age girl attended parties thrown by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, according to prosecutors who say they have proof he paid for sex, ANSA news agency said Thursday.
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There were no orgies, just cola and karaoke, Berlusconi's lawyers say
Silvio Berlusconi's parties were not wild "bunga bunga" orgies but gentle soirees where modestly dressed young women sipped mineral water and watched movies, according to a dossier compiled by the prime minister's lawyers.
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PM's scandals threaten moral fabric, church warns
The Roman Catholic Church said on Monday that Silvio Berlusconi's scandalous private life threatened to turn Italy into a moral vacuum. The country's most senior bishop, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, said the prime minister's conduct was sowing the seeds of an "anthropological disaster." Young Italians would eschew abiding by the law and working hard in favour of easy money by "selling" themselves, he said. Cardinal Bagnasco said the example set by Italy's leaders suggested that "cunning, social climbing, showing off and selling oneself" was the way to get ahead. Italians were "horrified" by the conduct of politicians, some of whom needed a refresher course in "the ABCs of ethics," he said.
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